In the End It All Becomes True
            
            
             In the short story, The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allen Poe was very dark and mysterious. Through the descriptions the characters were faced to deal with death even against their own will.
            
            
             Throughout the story the characters ran from the thoughts of death. For example, Poe
            
            
             says, " dreams are stiff frozen as they stand. But the echoes of the chime die away-they have
            
            
             endured but an instant-and, a light, half-subdued laughter floats after them as they depart." When
            
            
             the words they have endured but an instant is saying they have gotten away for a second. But in
            
            
             the long run they cannot get away. In addition, it says, " when the sounding of midnight upon the
            
            
             clock." Everything stopped an grew quiet in the midst because for another instance the crown was
            
            
             worried of the seventh room. They dwindled in their talking and started to argue death by
            
            
             refusing is existence. Furthermore, the characters were scared of the Red Masque. They tried
            
            
             everything in the party to forget it but every now and then they were frightfully reminded of their
            
            
             doom and existence.
            
            
            
             Even though they tried so hard to get away from death they were forced to see it and
            
            
             think of it. For example, Poe writes, " the whole company to whom life and death are equally
            
            
             jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made." There are no jokes between life and death.
            
            
             The characters could not get away from the dark gloomy figure. In addition, a character says, "
            
            
             who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery?" The character is trying to find a reason he is
            
            
             thinking of death but has no way around it. The mind was confusing him into blaming something
            
            
             but he just could not get away from the everlasting figure in the seventh room.
            
            
             Edgar Allen Poe shows a sense of struggle in a per...